MISO revived the idea of implementing a seasonal capacity auction as part of its multipronged resource availability and need initiative, but promised to gather more data before defining long-term solutions.

Stakeholders are urging MISO to slow downits disjointed resource availability and need effort until it can measure the effects of 3 related FERC filings.

MISO’s recent resource adequacy filings with FERC will affect the timeline of an otherwise unremarkable capacity auction in terms of load forecasts.

MISO posted draft 2019/20 Planning Resource Auction data that are virtually unchanged from last year’s early predictions.

MISO discussed what resource availability and need solutions it will focus on next year, including improvements to the Planning Resource Auction.

MISO officials say they will follow through on most recommendations in its Independent Market Monitor’s 2017 State of the Market report.

MISO’s IMM urged the RTO to require that planning resources have firm transmission to ensure they can deliver their full installed capacity.

MISO offered its energy storage participation proposal for final stakeholder inspection while promising to introduce more new market rules in the future.

MISO says the time is not yet ripe for creating a detailed solar capacity credit process.

The Resource Adequacy Subcommittee allowed MISO to use last year’s capacity export limit for Missouri’s Zone 5 after the RTO could not identify the limit.